Yes, there are likely some Web 2.0 outfits that really can scale MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, etc. as well as anyone can, but guess what? They're probably not you.

As of this writing, the latest version of PostgreSQL is 7.0.2, released in the spring of 2000. As with all open-source software, you can download the PostgreSQL source code from the Internet and ...

There were many other improvements, of course, but in this article, I focus on these big changes. Before continuing, I should note that installing PostgreSQL 10 is quite easy, with ports for many ...